New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-31
THE RICHES OF RICHFIELD.
NATURAL. SOCIAL. MUSICAL AND PERSONAL


NATURAL, SOCIAL. MUSICAL AND PERSONAL
sxSAroR HIscocK SPEAKING ON HIS MOTHERS
ap,Nxryc. wHEEI-GRNERAL McooK's LONG
HONEYMOON.
F.. RtcHFIEIp SPRINGS, July S0.--lf any more people
want 70 conc to Richfed Springs, they w,uId better
oome ,n There are many here now ana 90 many
vrore expected on every train that the hotel propre-
tore are WONDERING what to do witt all their guests
Nature did generously by Rchdeid Springs she
placed it in lovely valley full OF trees and meadows
and santimentinspirin2 rambles. She supplied J"
above the surface with q rare, glorious atmosphere
ireighted with health-siving gases She gaveit TWO
beautiful lakes, Csndarago and Fenimore Coopers
loved Otsego, where memories Of Indian vaior ana
Indian romance cluster abuDdaatly She gave IL
mountains and hills through which currents VI ar arc
constantly drawing, even when the mountain-tops
are red ia the face with the heat 1t is cool and breezy
An the valley below And under the surface she placed
Q my site chemist, who pounds and compounds IN ms
vubterraiean mortar aud sends shooting up through
the ground dozen healing streams IL Is no "onoo''
therefore, that people who want to feel we aoo n"'
q good time, come in ihrougs to Richhcd Springs.
A chaf1nini thing about it is that every one ""o
comes brings his family along. hcnne'o Is go
place for families. There seems to be O. not'oh aoo
In the land that the guests here are mainly rch rne
MATES aud elderly ladies with spiral curis ana
lorcnettcs but as matter OF TACT though the sui-
phur baths attract plenty OF equity OLD mon anu "ou
matc old ladies, there are whole piazzas iuii Oh
the usual two weeks vacation and who mean TO make
the most of their time. They ride, fish drive. row.
play tennis and chess aud cribbage. They dance
and hunt the donkeys tail and promenade ana spoon
They 20 the and camp out In the mountains
AMI make taly-ho excursions about tho country. IN
fact h,re never was place that offered moro oppor
.nnities for harmless fun and trolic than TINS htie
village Nesting ut the base OF the north "oous'
1,7OC feet above the level OF the sea-
When tho young people have exhau sted all t'eir
other sources OF entertainments when they have
spurred each OF tho thrtysix riding horses In ITO
fssssr Diclels stables, whom they haSs aanceo ger
mans enough to up all tho bddlestrings on MI
I,owbari's vioiiu, thea they get up chsrades noo
thcarcsls In the Sumn or Theatre in the park which
Uas -sauctied some years ago by the Republican
State Convention The influences OF this stage are 80
eminently beucfcisl that one OF the iadies most
prominent its boards last year has returned 10
Richfsd as n lecturer on Christian Science" Inc
sociabity of Richicld has always been marked.
There are not those superb distances between visitors
which are SO scrupulousl maintained at newport ana
Saratoga Tho dressing is elegant but the wearing OF
fortunes on onss neck is rather discouraged Lades
DO not breakfast ia diamonds, as have often seen
them do at Saratoga 1t IL not necessary before one
person makes anothers acquaintance that they shoo
run needles into each others vcans TO ascertain 'he
ae2ros of blaeness ia their blood On the contrary
sase and refinement are tho prevailing QUALITIES %
E;ch6elds summer guests and agreeable manner
il the only passport needed into the pieasaetest
,ocety, circumstance which operates most happily
tor the guests is the cordial relations existing De-
tween tho leading hotel proprietors Mr. froetor
of the Spring House, and Mr. WEIGH, OF the New
American who, by the way, Is the same Mr. Weicn
who kept the old St. Nicholas in New-York City IN
DAYS az pnc cousins, and so tar hon being rvas
their constant aim is 10 facilitate each others ousi-
ness- Their enter.s nents are held IN common,
they use the saWc band. which rs consequently much
fin and larger than could be supported separately,
and in many ways they work together tor the pleasure
of their guests While in SAratogs recently the pro.
pretor OF great hotel tod me IN grieycd voice Oh
an English nobIenan who had arrived the night Do
tore, aud to whom he was presented In tue ioooy py
a very democratic friend.
SMy lord said the American, 7" this rs Mr. Host"
sGiad to know you, SIR" said the hotel man,
eheerrly, and gltd to have you here am the pro-
,retor of this hotel"
HIS lordship adjusted his glass and looked tho
spropr.e;or" over with some deliberaton. Then he
said:
Jaw. weakly you are the-aw-innkeepah. Yaas
aw when want you viii send tor YOU
The proprietor did not get over this presentation Tor
week Had my lord yentured thus 10 sir his emf
hence at the expense OF Nj, WEIGH or Mr. Proctor, be
would have been compelled to sleep in tho stables
The innkeepers" and the guests here are On terms
Of friendly equality.
Asarue. RichHeld not resort for politicians.
Rather of them have been here this year than
usual Twelve miles away is the home OF ex-senator
Miller, and at a distance OF only sixty miles IS syria
where the council fire of the five nations was kept
burning night and DAY from moon to moon, and now
the home of Mr.. Miller's successor, Senator Frank
Hiscock. Both these statesmen have been here re-
Gently was talking about Frank Iiiscock with one
of his warm admirers here day two ago, farmer
living in the Senator's Congressional district who
drove over to RchHeld to spend Sunday Hiscock,
he said, will prove delightful surprise to most
NewYorkers / predict that he viii be one OF the
most industrious men in the Senate and a genuine
party leader in the State Did you ever hear hin
make sreechi Not Well sir. you have still some
thing to hear. He can talk amazingly well He IA
full Of facts, full OF logic and full OF wit The only
thing he lacks Ia sentiment. And yet once heard
hun speak when, from the opening word to tho pcrora
ton, he talked with a soul that fairly teemed with
tenderness | never heard him speak that way
terose and suppose nsver shall again. 1t was at a
county fair. Frank has been making speeches at
county fairs ever since he sixteenyear-old boy
worn and tired asked him how he did
a'Uttsrly played out Tom. he SAID; i haven't got
used me up and he closed his eyes as II he meant to
20 to sleep then and there. Now, was anxious IL
have him make good speech aud one With little bit
OF soul in 1t. When tho chairman introduced him TO
the crowd he only halt awake, and stepping to
the front laid his hand ON an old fashioned spnnlng
wheel that had there. That Was my opportunity,
and walking softly up to him before he had chance
TO say word whispered:
Frank Hiscock your hand IL on your old mothers
spinning wheel. from which her loving fingers have
woven you many suit OF clothing
aHe turnel on and great FIRE glowed nom hif
eyes, and when 1t died away there were two big tears
there He pressed my band and then. facing the
crowd be made one Of the noblcst, grandest speeches
ever heard. and he scarcely ever took his hand
from the iittic TUT OF fax on the shuttla
think thousands OF New Workers will like Franz
Hiscosk all the more whom they read this story
Among those who stand Loyalty by Richhcld yea
aftet year Ex-Governor Van Zandt, OF Rhosc Island
His name Is On old and proud one IN the history
Of HE little state tn scurous coincidsnce INA
Coz ernor Van Zandt took the oath oil ONCE on tn
bftieth anniversary OF his grsndfathers inauguration
aud the Tooth anniversary at his grestgranafather
inauguration to the same o6iee His maternal grand
father was Charles Collins for whom he s named
The old man intense Clay Wing One da
during the height Of the campaign he went TO a sui
geon to have most pan.u, operation performed upo
his eve. There we're snasthercs IN those dsy
and Tor thirty minutes the surgeons kne Mas p,ayn